Hi Matt As always you are very generous in your advice and sharing information. I strongly urge people to either tie your patterns or try them by buying them. They work they are very reasonably priced. I had Matt ship me these to the UK. As always look after yourself Matt All the best, David
@@theflyguytfgflies I have a blue and a pink artifical flower lea from the dollar tree. Wife threw the blue one in my cart many years Aago. I looked at her, told her she was insane, she replied "You'll figure out how to use it. And I did! I peel the plastic holographic colored bit off the cloth backing. Use it for wings, or rolled onto a hook as a body. Looks a lot like a minnow body with a thin layer of clear nail polish on it. That lead me to trying the same trick on a cheap dollar tree ribbon kit. With similar results. I now cut the ribbon down to 1/4 inch strips before peeling, as it goes on over a yarn or dubbing body much smoother with fewer wrinkles. I have scored a LOT of mylar tubing and mylar in various shapes, forms, and colors. Plus a couple of feather boas in white and black which are great cheap maraboo along with a lot of gold and silver mylar tinsel strips. For me dollar tree is like fly tyers heaven, just takes an open mind and some tinkering to get awesome stuff.
All true Matt. Nicely put together.
Very informative!
Thanks for sharing
Good job thanks
thank you!
Hi Matt
As always you are very generous in your advice and sharing information. I strongly urge people to either tie your patterns or try them by buying them. They work they are very reasonably priced. I had Matt ship me these to the UK.
As always look after yourself Matt
All the best, David
Thank you David! Greatly appreciate your feedback and support! Hope you are well across the pond!
@@theflyguytfgflies All good Matt, thanks. Take care and have fun on the water!
Nicely done sir! Personally I like using dollar tree superdry for head cement. Which is clear nail polish thinned with a solvent.
You also have the option of using Loon water based head cement.
Thank you! Nice! Dollar Tree has some great stuff for fly tiers.
For sure!
@@theflyguytfgflies I have a blue and a pink artifical flower lea from the dollar tree. Wife threw the blue one in my cart many years Aago. I looked at her, told her she was insane, she replied "You'll figure out how to use it. And I did! I peel the plastic holographic colored bit off the cloth backing. Use it for wings, or rolled onto a hook as a body. Looks a lot like a minnow body with a thin layer of clear nail polish on it. That lead me to trying the same trick on a cheap dollar tree ribbon kit. With similar results. I now cut the ribbon down to 1/4 inch strips before peeling, as it goes on over a yarn or dubbing body much smoother with fewer wrinkles. I have scored a LOT of mylar tubing and mylar in various shapes, forms, and colors. Plus a couple of feather boas in white and black which are great cheap maraboo along with a lot of gold and silver mylar tinsel strips. For me dollar tree is like fly tyers heaven, just takes an open mind and some tinkering to get awesome stuff.